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Music Gift-Boosting Activities

by Molly Hewitt

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Grades K-2

  • Take the Kids to a Concert
    Music can bridge the generation gap when your family goes to a concert.

  • Making Music
    Strike up the band with these great homemade instruments.

  • A Pie Plate and Pistachio Tambourine
    Your kids can start one nutty rhythm section when they raid the cupboards for instrument ingredients.

  • Guess the Sound
    Before your kids can tell an oboe from an English horn, they can learn how to guess, "what made that sound?"

  • Music in a Bottle
    When drinking glasses are recruited as instruments, dinner always ends on a positive note! (High C, perhaps?)

    Grades 3-5
    Grades 6-8


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